Painting and Sculpture

Flight into Egypt (Pareja)

Flight into Egypt is a 1658 oil painting by Juan de Pareja. The painting, now housed in the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, was the first of Pareja's works to enter the United States after being acquired by the Ringling brothers in the 1920s. The painting is one of many paintings on religious subjects among Pareja's surviving works. Pareja's authorship is confirmed by his signature and the date inscribed on the rock towards the lower left of the canvas, identifying it as his earliest known work to date. The work marks Pareja's transition from an enslaved assistant in artist Diego Velázquez's studio to an independent artist. Its bright color palette, structured composition, and religious symbolism reveal its fusion of both Spanish and Venetian artistic traditions.

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• ▸Fine art
• ▸Giuseppe Cesari
• ▸Cardinal de Granvelle's Dwarf

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